The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. WalshC. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 من الصفحات |
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... greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his fettlement at Cam- bridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whofe acquaintance all his contempora- ries seem to have been ambitious ...
... greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his fettlement at Cam- bridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whofe acquaintance all his contempora- ries seem to have been ambitious ...
الصفحة 23
... greatest throng of his former bufi- " nefs , had ftill called upon him , and re- " prefented to him the true delights of foli- " tary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a " moderate revenue below the malice and " flatteries of ...
... greatest throng of his former bufi- " nefs , had ftill called upon him , and re- " prefented to him the true delights of foli- " tary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a " moderate revenue below the malice and " flatteries of ...
الصفحة 62
... ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greatest in the fa- miliar and the feftive . The The next clafs of his poems is called The Mistress 62 COWLEY .
... ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greatest in the fa- miliar and the feftive . The The next clafs of his poems is called The Mistress 62 COWLEY .
الصفحة 64
... greatest extremities of love , " he concludes the torrid zone to be habi- " table . Upon the dying of a tree , on which " he had cut his loves , he obferves , that his " flames had burnt up and withered the " tree . " Thefe conceits ...
... greatest extremities of love , " he concludes the torrid zone to be habi- " table . Upon the dying of a tree , on which " he had cut his loves , he obferves , that his " flames had burnt up and withered the " tree . " Thefe conceits ...
الصفحة 70
... greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can be but pretty , and by claiming dignity becomes ri- diculous . Thus all the power of defcription is destroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration ; and the force of metaphors is loft ...
... greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can be but pretty , and by claiming dignity becomes ri- diculous . Thus all the power of defcription is destroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration ; and the force of metaphors is loft ...
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الصفحة 115 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
الصفحة 54 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
الصفحة 32 - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
الصفحة 225 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.
الصفحة 326 - It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse ; which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules, and of reducing the speculation into practice. For many a fair precept in Poetry is like a seeming demonstration in the Mathematics, very specious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanic operation.
الصفحة 193 - However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still be a giant among the pygmies, the oneeyed monarch of the blind.
الصفحة 231 - ... of the conduct of the two brothers, who, when their sister sinks with fatigue in a pathless wilderness, wander both away together in search of berries too far to find their way back, and leave a helpless Lady to all the sadness and danger of solitude.
الصفحة 232 - Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.
الصفحة 147 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
الصفحة 27 - The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses, by counting the syllables.